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Modest Stabs at Re-imagining Opera at UC San Diego

By Ken Herman | October 9, 2016 |

“The Voice Machine,” a collaborative performance of three new short operas at UC San Diego’s Experimental Theatre, could be described as the shotgun marriage of Dada opera with the extended “Saturday Night Live” sketch . . .

Musical Adventure at UC San Diego’s Prebys Concert Hall

By Ken Herman | February 19, 2016 |

UC San Diego’s Wednesday@7 concert of contemporary chamber music took us from the wrenching drama of Harrison Birtwistle’s solo cantata “Nenia: The Death of Orpheus” to the spectral tone painting of Xavier Beteta’s brand new “La Catedral Abandonada” . . .